[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 221 (Thursday, November 15, 2001)]
[Presidential Documents]
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                Memorandum of November 9, 2001

                
Determinations Under Section 1106(a) of the 
                Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988--Separate 
                Customs

                Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu
                Memorandum for the United States Trade Representative

                Section 1106(a) of the Omnibus Trade and 
                Competitiveness Act of 1988, (19 U.S.C. 2905(a)) (the 
                ``1988 Act''), requires the President to determine for 
                any major trading country that is acceding to the World 
                Trade Organization (WTO) whether state trading 
                enterprises account for a significant share of the 
                exports of that major trading country or goods that 
                compete with imports into that country and whether such 
                state trading enterprises unduly burden and restrict, 
                or adversely affect, the foreign trade of the United 
                States or the United States economy, or are likely to 
                result in such a burden, restriction, or effect.

                Taiwan, known in the WTO as ``the Separate Customs 
                Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu,'' is in 
                the final stage of its accession to the WTO. Thus, 
                pursuant to section 1106(a) of the 1988 Act, I 
                determine that state trading enterprises do not account 
                for a significant share of the exports of the Separate 
                Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu 
                or of goods that compete with exports to the Separate 
                Customs Territory. Further, I determine that such state 
                trading enterprises do not unduly burden and restrict, 
                or adversely affect, the foreign trade of the United 
                States or the United States economy, and are not likely 
                to result in such a burden, restriction, or effect.

                You are directed to publish this memorandum in the 
                Federal Register.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, November 9, 2001.

[FR Doc. 01-28764
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